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Check out insights from a recent McKnight Foundation Roundtable Discussion sponsored by Curana Health, a Health Care Transformation Task Force member. Leaders in long-term care gathered to discuss the shift to #ValueBasedCare.     In discussing the importance of prioritizing person-centered care, Task Force Executive Director, Jeff Micklos expresses that, “they want to be people first, patients second, and that means active listening, care plan co-creation, sincere empathy, and making sure that we’re involving other people.”     Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gVNt36pp

Covered California's best-in-class, all star research team is at it again! woot woot Marina Lovchikova! With increased affordability from the American Rescue Plan Act, the team conducted an RCT of an email nudge related to plan choice. The nudge caused a, statistically significant, 74% increase in plan switching and an increase in practitioner visits. While studies have proven that plans with high out of pocket costs get in the way of health, this study proves the inverse...that more affordable health care, leads to an increase in health care services. https://lnkd.in/gnuUbNvH

Check out insights from a recent McKnight Foundation Roundtable Discussion sponsored by Curana Health, a Health Care Transformation Task Force member. Leaders in long-term care gathered to discuss the shift to #ValueBasedCare.     In discussing the importance of prioritizing person-centered care, Task Force Executive Director, Jeff Micklos expresses that, “they want to be people first, patients second, and that means active listening, care plan co-creation, sincere empathy, and making sure that we’re involving other people.”     Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gVNt36pp

Health care is best when tailored to specific communities, so we applaud progressive health plans like Humana for leaning into partnerships like this one with CINQCARE that recognize this fact. https://hubs.ly/Q02c2xx40

Consolidation in health care markets is a major threat to health care access and affordability. My former colleagues and I at The Century Foundation wrote a report about what States can do to address the harms of consolidation with an equity lens. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/devGag5h

In a pair of newly-released Forefront articles, Thomas Priselac of the Cedars Sinai Health System and Paul Ginsburg of the University of Southern California take on one of the most enduring debates in health care policy and financing: the role and significance of cost-shifting from public to private payers. Check out their differing perspectives and join in the discussion! You can read both pieces (Priselac, https://bit.ly/3PpkxwN Ginsburg, https://bit.ly/3Zr3Oxu) today.

Respondents in the Milken Institute's study ranked preventive care, increasing access to primary care, and focusing on whole-person health as the top three tenets of accountable care. At CareAllies I see our physician partners achieve all three. #Valuebasedcare enables more preventive care, increases access to primary care and enables more whole- person health by empowering practices to better address multiple chronic conditions and #SDOH. MedCity News https://bit.ly/44xwqb3

Most value-based care conversations focus on facilitating the payment mechanism, which is important, but Rob Allen, president and CEO of Intermountain Health, wants to talk more about alignment. When anyone asks him about value-based care, he responds: "What value for whom? What value are we creating and for whom are we creating it?" "'As we answer those questions, I think we truly can create a value model that serves our communities, and serves them well" #valuebasedcare #populationhealth #communityhealth #upstreamvalue

Knowing what other organizations involved in value-based care (VBC) contracts are doing with health equity can stimulate innovations in care delivery that takes health related social needs (HRSN) into account - see what these experts shared during the conference. https://okt.to/v15ifa

Value-based care is the future of health care, but we need leadership to get there